About making a field mandatory in Resolve screen

[Vinod Narayanan]

Hi,

I was working with JIRA 4.3.3. I am trying to apply a 'Custom field' as mandatory when resolving an issue. I arrange the field to be Appear/Available in the 'Resolve issue' screen. Also I set it as 'Mandatory'. But right now I am facing an issue with 'Create' issue. As I made this field as mandatory I am not able to create the issue as it is asking for the 'Custom field' to fill. Is there a way to add a new Issue Operation other than 'Create/Edit/View'?
Or is there anyway to configure this successfully. This is urgent. Please help.

Regards,
Vinod

[Michael Kornatzki]

Hi, i am doing the same with ScriptRunners Behaviours.

In a script you can get the transition and if you want you can make fields mandatory, readonly, valid/invalid, ...

[Vinod Narayanan]

Hi Michael, Can you please share the scripts? Best Regards, Vinod

[Michael Kornatzki]

Well, not the complete Script but snippets/hints. You have to write a groovy-script for Behaviours-Plugin Then you can check for Transition with private boolean isTransitionResolve() { if (getAction() != null) { return getAction().getName().equals("Resolve Issue") } return false } And set a field mandatory with: FormField formCustomField = getFieldByName("YourCustomField") if (isTransitionResolve()) { formCustomField.setRequired(true) } else { formCustomField.setRequired(false) }

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Or just use a validator, such as cfValues['Some Field'] (Yes, that's it, that's all you need for "custom field is mandatory on this transition", if you use a validator)

[JiraYo]

I used the JVME plugin to do this today as a workflow validator.

simply select "Fields Required Validator (JMWE add-on) " as a validation step and the red asterisk will appear on the field that requires content. You can even add a message to the user if they dont fill out the field. nice...

[Bogdan Gorka]

When I face similar challenges I find this book very helpful: JIRA 6.x Administration Cookbook

One way to solve your problem is explained step by step in chapter: Making a field required during workflow transition. It is also based on ScriptRunner. However, I did not not test it so I am not sure how it works in practice. 

[Vinod Narayanan]

Hi, I have installed Behaviours Plugin to jira. And added the custom field and it's validate check at 'Resolve' stage. But still when I try to create the issue 'The field' required message appears. Best Regards, Vinod

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You have not removed the "field is always mandatory" flag in the "field configuration"

[Vinod Narayanan]

Sorry, Mic. I didn't get you. Are you referring a code? Or is that an option in Field Configuration Scheme? Or is it in Behaviours Plugin? Best Regards, Vinod

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I did say "Field configuration"

[Vinod Narayanan]

Are you saying about the latest Jira version (Jira 6.0)? I was working with Jira 4.3.3 In that there is no option to Remove/Add 'Field is always mandatory'. The only option is (Optional/Mandatory) for field. Or if you are saying anything with script please explain. Thanks for the valuable comments. I have installed Behaviours Plugin in jira and configure the field too. But not working. Best regards, Vinod

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Field configuration has not changed much since version 3. As I said, make the field optional in there.

[Vinod Narayanan]

Hi Nic, I haven't used any script validators to achieve this. Please let me know where should I input the scripts if I am applying them. I have installed 'Behaviours' plugin and added this field and configure it in such a way that Conditions: When: For action: Resolve Issue (5) (Delete) Except: For step: Open (1) (Delete) And made it 'Required' too. As you said to make it 'Optional' in field configuration then I am able to create the ticket and able to view the custom field in 'Resolve' screen but the thing is it is not 'Mandatory' there. What I am trying to achieve is the Custom field should be visible only in 'Resolve' screen and 'Mandatory' too, so anybody can't leave it blank and make the issue resolve. While I made it Mandatory in Field configurations the ticket won't create even though I have defined the same with behaviours. And when I make it optional it fails to achieve the requirement :-( Is there anyway to add a new Issue Operation like and otherthan 'Create/Edit/View'? If so we can create a 'Resolve' Issue operation and associate the screen to this operation and make the field Mandatory. Thanks in advance. My Skype Id is :vinuv7, If you don't mind we can talk in detail. Due to restrictions I am able to post one question/day. So the issue resolution is delayed. Best Regards, Vinod

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

To summarise what has been said before, as you don't seem to be putting it together correctly: 1. You make the field *optional* in the field configuration 2. You add a validator to the transitions where you want to make it mandatory

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There are several scripted validator examples in the docs - https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/recipes/workflow/validators/simple-scripted-validators.html

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Note that you had no way to tell JIRA where you wanted the field to be mandatory.  You don't get this because it isn not there.  A field is either optional or mandatory for the whole lifecycle of the issue.

TO make the field mandatory, you need to implement a validator to check the value of the field during the transition on which you want to enforce entry.  You'll be able to find such validators in add-ons - the JIRA Suite Utilities is the one I tend to use (free, well supported and been around for years)